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 Every Halloween, Chris and his best friend Dee have one tradition they never miss, visiting Hollow House Costume Emporium. It's become their favorite way to celebrate the season, filled with elaborate costumes, creepy decorations, and just enough scares to keep them coming back year after year.

This year is different.

After donning matching costumes and wandering into the store's hidden maze, they discover a trapdoor concealed beneath the floor. Thirteen knocks...one whispered word, Samhain, and the impossible becomes real. Beneath the store lies a secret underground city where masked strangers dance beneath glowing pumpkins, haunted attractions blur the line between fantasy and reality, and every guest is assigned a mysterious escort who warns them never to become separated.

Then people begin disappearing.

At first the screams sound like part of the show. The blood looks fake. The monsters seem like actors. But when Chris loses Dee during a mysterious blackout, the celebration becomes a desperate search through shifting corridors, forgotten tunnels, and ancient chambers hidden beneath the club. Every clue leads to another lie, every answer uncovers an older secret, and every rule exists for a reason.

Because Samhain isn't just a Halloween party.

It's a place with a history.

A place that remembers every visitor.

And once the House remembers your name...

It never truly lets you leave.

Perfect for fans of atmospheric horror, psychological suspense, and twist-filled thrillers, The Thirteenth Knock will make you think twice before opening the wrong door...or answering when something whispers your name in the dark.

 A year after surviving Samhain, Chris Bennett has tried to bury the nightmare beneath Hollow House. He has found love with Jamie Leigh, a woman who adores Halloween but experiences dreams so vividly they feel real. Chris never tells her what happened beneath the Halloween store.

Until Jamie disappears.

A broken phone call and one word, Emporium, tell Chris exactly where she has gone.

Chris and Dee return to Samhain, determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past. But the underground world has changed. New rooms hide new horrors, Dee’s missing memories are beginning to return, and Jamie possesses something the House has been waiting for.

She is a Dreamer.

As dreams become doors and buried truths awaken, Chris must save Jamie before Samhain finds a way to escape through her mind.

Because this Halloween, getting out alive may only be the beginning.

  Some doors are meant to stay closed. Some memories refuse to stay buried.

Dee has spent years believing she escaped Samhain, but the truth is far more terrifying. She was never simply a visitor to the mysterious world hidden behind thirteen knocks. She was part of it long before Chris and Jamie ever discovered the entrance. Long before the costumes, the maze, and the whispered word that opened the way beneath the Halloween store, Dee was a frightened little girl who disappeared from the real world and became something Samhain desperately needed.

Its Keeper.

As forgotten memories begin returning, Dee is forced to relive the childhood stolen from her. She remembers the fake sky she once believed was real, the mother who never stopped searching for her, the boy named Adrian who refused to abandon her, and the horrifying bargain that cost Dee nearly every memory of the people she loved.

But the greatest secret waits behind a door that should never be opened.

Fourteen.

Dee discovers that Samhain may not be the monster she always believed it was. The thirteen doors are only part of a much older story, and something has been waiting beyond Fourteen for generations, learning voices, stealing memories, and searching for a way inside.

Now Samhain remembers Dee.

And it needs its Keeper again.

With Chris, Jamie, Adrian, and Victor beside her, Dee must uncover why she was chosen, what created the doors, and why the barrier protecting their world is beginning to fail.

Because next Halloween is coming.

Fourteen is weakening.

And something on the other side has already begun calling to the next generation.

The Thirteenth Knock: The Girl Samhain Forgot is Book Three of the Samhain Series, a dark supernatural thriller about stolen childhoods, buried memories, impossible sacrifices, and the terrifying truth behind the doors.

  Some masks hide a face. Others hide generations of secrets.

Victor Mercer has spent most of his life watching from the shadows, carrying knowledge that was never meant for one person and wearing the silver mask that transformed him into something more than a man.

A Witness.

A protector.

A keeper of truths too dangerous to reveal.

But as the history of Samhain begins unraveling, Victor discovers that almost everything he believed about the thirteen doors was built upon incomplete stories. The rules were not always rules. The sacrifices were not always necessary. And the families who inherited Samhain's secrets may have spent generations protecting a system created by grief, fear, and the dangerous belief that someone must always pay the price.

Now the thirteen stones are revealing their accounts.

Ruth Hain. Gideon Vale. Elizabeth Mercer. Elias Mercer. Samantha. Malachi. Each testimony exposes another piece of the truth, forcing Victor, Dee, Adrian, Chris, Jamie, and the others to confront what really happened before Samhain had a name.

But the Society has secrets of its own.

As Halloween approaches, an emergency plan known as the Closing Circle threatens to trap thousands of innocent people inside Samhain in order to contain what waits beyond Fourteen. Victor may hold the only key capable of stopping it, but doing so requires something far more difficult than another sacrifice.

He must refuse the role he was born to carry.

Because Samhain has survived for generations by convincing people that someone must stay behind.

This time, they are changing the rule.

No replacements.

No inherited sacrifices.

No more children paying for the mistakes of the past.

But six accounts remain unread.

Fourteen is still waiting.

And somewhere in the darkness, a silver mask that should have been destroyed has found another face.

The Thirteenth Knock: The Man Behind the Silver Mask is Book Four of the Samhain Series, a supernatural thriller about inherited trauma, buried truths, impossible choices, and the terrifying consequences of refusing to let the past die.

 The Plague Doctor was never supposed to become a person. He was supposed to be a solution.

In The Thirteenth Knock: The Plague Doctor’s Mask, Book 5 of the Samhain Series, the secrets buried beneath Hollow House begin to unravel as Adrian confronts the terrifying history behind the mask he was forced to wear. What began as a way to contain dangerous memories became something far more sinister: a system built on stolen identities, forgotten children, inherited responsibilities, and generations of people sacrificed in the name of protection.

As memories escape their boundaries and spread throughout Hollow Hill, Adrian must decide whether saving everyone means becoming the Plague Doctor once again. But this time, he understands the true cost of putting on the mask.

With Dee, Nolan, Elias, and the others beside him, Adrian begins dismantling the rules that have controlled Samhain for generations. Yet every broken rule reveals another secret, and Door Fourteen may not be protecting them from what lies beyond it.

Some masks hide monsters.

Others erase the person underneath.

When the final knock sounds, Adrian must discover whether Samhain can survive without a Plague Doctor, or whether some roles refuse to die.

 The future was never meant to be certain.

After surviving the horrors hidden beneath Hollow House, Chris, Jamie, Dee, Lenora, Adrian, and Mara discover that Samhain’s darkest secret is not another monster waiting in the shadows. It is something far more dangerous: the promise of knowing what comes next.

When Lenora’s tarot cards begin revealing impossible futures, memories of lives that have not happened start bleeding into the present. People remember marriages they never had, children who were never born, deaths that have not occurred, and choices they have yet to make. At the center of it all is Mara, a girl connected to countless possible futures and a prophecy that threatens to turn possibility into destiny.

As the thirteen knocks return, the group uncovers the truth buried beneath Hollow Hill. For generations, fear, grief, and desperation have fed a system designed to make people believe that one future must be chosen.

But what if the prophecy was never meant to predict tomorrow?

What if it was meant to control it?

In Book 6 of the Samhain Series, the greatest battle is not against death, darkness, or even fate.

It is the fight for the right to choose what happens next.

 Before Hollow House became a legend, before the masks had names, and before thirteen knocks opened the way into darkness, there was the first Samhain.

In 1649, the people of Hollow Hill discover an impossible world growing beneath their settlement, born from grief, memory, and the desperate desire to bring back what death has taken. Samhain offers something no grieving heart should be promised: another chance. The dead can return, forgotten lives can be restored, and doors can open between past, present, and futures that were never meant to touch.

But every miracle creates another choice.

As Mercy Bell and the others struggle to understand Samhain, their decisions begin forming traditions that will survive for centuries. The dance hall. The masks. The fortune teller. The hidden doors. The thirteen knocks. What begins as a desperate attempt to control the impossible slowly becomes the foundation of everything Hollow House will someday become.

Yet Samhain is learning, remembering, and changing.

And beneath its black tree, something even older is listening.

The first Samhain was never about opening a door.

It was about learning that every door can remain closed.

Because the thirteenth knock was never a command.

It was always a question.

 Hollow House has always remembered more than it should. Its walls carry secrets, its doors lead to places that should not exist, and beneath Hollow Hill something ancient has been waiting far longer than Samhain itself.

When Clara, Grace, Nathaniel, Mercy, and the others are pulled deeper into the origins of Hollow House, they discover that Samhain was not the first presence beneath the hill. Cairn existed before the hidden rooms, before the silver keys, and before anyone understood the meaning of thirteen knocks. But even Cairn was afraid of something.

As forgotten children emerge from impossible rooms and buried memories reveal the truth about Delilah’s disappearance, Grace must confront the life stolen from her while deciding who she chooses to become. Clara soon discovers that every attempt to save the house could reshape its future, creating the very traditions they have been trying to understand.

Then the first knock comes.

Not thirteen.

One.

And it is not asking permission.

In The Thirteenth Knock: The House on Hollow Hill, Book 8 of The Samhain Chronicles, the past and future collide as the terrifying origin of Samhain is finally revealed.

Because sometimes the safest door is the one you choose not to open.

  Hollow House has opened its doors, but freedom may be more dangerous than anything waiting behind them.

When Dee, Jamie, Chris, and the others discover hundreds of forgotten children hidden throughout the impossible corridors of Samhain, they face a horrifying truth: the children are not simply prisoners. Some have become part of the very structure holding Hollow House together. Freeing them could destroy everything. Leaving them behind means allowing the prison to continue.

But who gets to decide who should be saved?

As doors open and long buried memories return, the children begin making choices of their own. Some want their families. Some want to forget them. Some want names, while others refuse them. And some do not want to be rescued at all.

When the mysterious Collector reveals the terrifying cost of preserving every lost memory, Hollow House must learn that protecting someone is not the same as possessing them.

But just as the children finally begin reclaiming their stories, thirteen doors appear outside Hollow House, doors that were never meant to open.

And when the knocking continues beyond thirteen, Samhain gives a warning no one expected.

Something has entered the story that does not follow its rules.

The doors are open. The children are choosing. And the fourteenth knock has begun.

  The Thirteenth Knock: The Keepers of Thirteen
Book 10 of The Samhain Chronicles

The doors were never the true danger. It was the belief that someone had to control what waited behind them.

As Dee, Jamie, Chris, and the others uncover the deepest secrets of Hollow House, they discover that the Keepers were created for a purpose far greater—and far more dangerous—than anyone understood. Thirteen houses exist across fractured realities, each carrying different histories, memories, and versions of the people they thought they knew. For generations, the Keepers maintained order by choosing which worlds survived and which were forgotten.

Now that system is breaking.

The Returned want their stolen lives restored. The Unmade want the chance to become something of their own. Forgotten Keepers emerge with a terrifying solution: preserve one reality and sacrifice the rest. But Dee refuses to accept a world where survival requires someone else to disappear.

As thirteen realities collide, the group must redefine what it truly means to protect a boundary, carry a key, and choose freely. Because perhaps the greatest responsibility of a Keeper is knowing when to stop keeping.

But beyond the thirteen worlds, something new is waiting.

And it doesn’t believe doors should exist at all.

  The Society of the Closed Door was supposed to protect the world.

Instead, it decided who deserved to be remembered.

As Hollow House struggles with the consequences of everything the Society buried, Dee, Chris, Jamie, and the others uncover a terrifying truth. For generations, doors were not simply closed. People, memories, relationships, and entire pieces of history were sealed away with them. Now the system that kept those connections hidden is collapsing, and everything once forgotten is beginning to knock again.

But opening every door could be just as dangerous as keeping them closed.

When Dee discovers Freehold, a world built from those the Society erased, she is forced to confront an impossible question. Who has the right to decide when a door should open, when it should remain closed, and what happens when the people on opposite sides want different things?

Then comes the thirteenth knock.

Something is waiting beyond Hollow House. Something that has appeared every time the Society has fallen before. And this time, Dee refuses to repeat the choices that created the very system they fought to destroy.

Because the greatest danger may not be what waits behind a closed door.

It may be the person who believes they alone should decide whether it opens.

Book Eleven of The Samhain Chronicles

Some doors protect us. Some imprison us. And some have been waiting centuries for someone brave enough to ask why they were closed.

  The Last Door is gone, but Samhain’s final choice has never been closer.

After centuries of being needed, summoned, controlled, and depended upon, Samhain is finally learning what it means to exist without obligation. The network is changing. Freehold is learning to survive independently. Hollow House is becoming something entirely its own. And for the first time, Samhain must confront a terrifying possibility: freedom may not require a door at all.

But something ancient has been waiting beyond the boundaries Samhain believed were unreachable.

When Samuel Vane emerges from a forgotten society older than the Society of the Closed Door, the truth behind the doors begins to unravel. Desire created the first paths. Control turned them into prisons. And the Last Door may never have been what anyone believed.

As buried memories return and the thirteen anchors begin to separate from Samhain, one question becomes impossible to avoid. If Samhain is finally free to leave, will it?

In Book Twelve of The Thirteenth Knock series, Jamie Lambert delivers a haunting story of freedom, identity, grief, love, and the courage to choose your own path.

Because the final door does not decide where you belong.

You do.